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Multibody parts

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- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to be looking at multibody parts, how to create them and how to delete them. First things first, I have a single part right now. If I take this part and I create a sketch and let's just go ahead and create a center point rectangle right on this top surface here. And there it is. Let's do an extruded cut and let's just cut through this. Soon as we cut through it I'm going to say through all. Now I have a multibody part so notice it asks me do I want to keep all these bodies or select the bodies I want to choose? So if I click on select bodies, I can choose which one I want to keep. If I click on all bodies, I get everything there. So now I have two bodies and if you look over here on our tree, you can see I have a drop down and I have cut extrude number one and cut extrude number one dash two, or the second part of that. So this is a multibody part and a great way to deal with parts like this is, I can right click on it, I can say isolate. I…

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